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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020

From the Principle of Inertia to the Death Drive: The Influence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics on the Freudian Theory of the Psychical Apparatus.

Jessica Tran The, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti, François Ansermet

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jessica Tran TheFaculty of Biology and Medicine, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jean-Philippe AnsermetEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Pierre MagistrettiAgalma Foundation Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
François AnsermetFaculty of Biology and Medicine, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the Freudian theory of the psychical apparatus, the introduction from the 1920s onward of the second drive dualism appears as a major turning point. The idea of a "death drive," first expressed in

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death driveentropyFreudprinciple of inertiathermodynamics

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PMID32184748
PMCPMC7058684

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